>>> Item number 34107 from WRITERS LOG9407D --- (23 records) ----- <<< Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 18:35:01 JST Reply-To: WRITERS Sender: WRITERS From: Mike Barker Subject: EXERCISE: Cracked Quotes... Just for fun (rainy days, when the drifting fog stops your mind from wandering...) 1. Take a book of quotations (poems, songs, whatever you like). 2. Fairly randomly, pick a chunk. (even unfairly will do...:-) 3. Now let the mind wobble, replacing some or all of the words with interestingly different ones. Werewolf showtunes, vampire suckings, the merry widow scuttling. If you happen to have several people handy, play "whisper" -- have one whisper to the next, and so forth, then listen to what the last one heard... 4. Then fit it into a story. "The Braid, The Bowed, The View" could be title, could be the three main characters, or just a slogan for a new rug sales chain. Whatever, make those twisted words yours, and shape the tale that makes them fit. write away, boss! tink